Andrés Valencia 🚅🌇🚲
@andres-avr.bsky.social
Cities & Transportation, thoughts on making our cities better for everyone. UWaterloo planning🇨🇴🇨🇦
With the announcement of 300km/h high speed rail in Canada my only true hope is that political infighting doesn’t kill it… for now, CANADA IS GETTING HIGH SPEED RAIL!!!
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
Canada is getting high-speed rail
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that Canada is developing a high-speed rail network in the Toronto-Quebec City corridor.
www.pm.gc.ca
February 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
With the announcement of 300km/h high speed rail in Canada my only true hope is that political infighting doesn’t kill it… for now, CANADA IS GETTING HIGH SPEED RAIL!!!
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
Could it be?? IS IT HAPPENING?!?
Please let Canadian high-speed rail happen 🤩🤩🤩
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Please let Canadian high-speed rail happen 🤩🤩🤩
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Trudeau government to announce high-speed rail plans from Toronto to Quebec City: sources
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Transport Minister Anita Anand were slated to make an announcement Wednesday which two sources confirmed to the Star will be to build high-speed rail from
www.thestar.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Could it be?? IS IT HAPPENING?!?
Please let Canadian high-speed rail happen 🤩🤩🤩
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Please let Canadian high-speed rail happen 🤩🤩🤩
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Seoul’s Central Station is probably the most European style High Speed Rail station in all of east Asia… you can really see SNCF, and Alstom’s influence. And not just because their first gen trains are literally adaptions of the French TGV. (🧵👇)
January 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Seoul’s Central Station is probably the most European style High Speed Rail station in all of east Asia… you can really see SNCF, and Alstom’s influence. And not just because their first gen trains are literally adaptions of the French TGV. (🧵👇)
Yesterday (Dec 28), Seoul’s GTX High-Speed metro/regional rail line opened its section from Seoul Station to the Northwest at Unjeongjungang. A🧵👇
@jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social @jedwin.bsky.social
@jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social @jedwin.bsky.social
December 29, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Yesterday (Dec 28), Seoul’s GTX High-Speed metro/regional rail line opened its section from Seoul Station to the Northwest at Unjeongjungang. A🧵👇
@jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social @jedwin.bsky.social
@jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social @jedwin.bsky.social
So tell me, is your Asian city rail network in it’s “brand new and rapidly growing” phase or in it’s “old but perfectly maintained” era?
📍1) Xiamen
📍1) Xiamen
December 23, 2024 at 9:31 AM
So tell me, is your Asian city rail network in it’s “brand new and rapidly growing” phase or in it’s “old but perfectly maintained” era?
📍1) Xiamen
📍1) Xiamen
It says a lot about a city when the primary front entrance to your major world class airport is almost completely dedicated to an Airport Express train for both arrivals and departures… Hong Kong is just on another level🤩
December 16, 2024 at 4:26 PM
It says a lot about a city when the primary front entrance to your major world class airport is almost completely dedicated to an Airport Express train for both arrivals and departures… Hong Kong is just on another level🤩
Wait why is this so cool?!😭
Wild that Rio de Janeiro Metro Line 2 used to be be a pre-metro using LRVs in the 1980s. As time passed the line was slowly upgraded and grade separated into a full blown metro line using third rail. LRVs drawing overhead power were used on the line well into the 2000s.
December 6, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Wait why is this so cool?!😭
Reposted by Andrés Valencia 🚅🌇🚲
Wild that Rio de Janeiro Metro Line 2 used to be be a pre-metro using LRVs in the 1980s. As time passed the line was slowly upgraded and grade separated into a full blown metro line using third rail. LRVs drawing overhead power were used on the line well into the 2000s.
December 5, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Wild that Rio de Janeiro Metro Line 2 used to be be a pre-metro using LRVs in the 1980s. As time passed the line was slowly upgraded and grade separated into a full blown metro line using third rail. LRVs drawing overhead power were used on the line well into the 2000s.
Some fantastic work on a hidden but extremely controversial problem.
Infrastructure costs ballooning is not normal everywhere, and it genuinely might be more damaging to building a better future in the Anglosphere than any NIMBY. We need change👇👇
Infrastructure costs ballooning is not normal everywhere, and it genuinely might be more damaging to building a better future in the Anglosphere than any NIMBY. We need change👇👇
NEW PUBLICATION: “Understanding the Drivers of Transit Construction Costs in Canada”
The first from me, Balthazar Crane, @chittimarco.bsky.social, and Amer Shalaby.
So why are transit projects so expensive in Canada? Here’s what we found: 1/🧵
stateofcitiessummit.ca/files/041224...
The first from me, Balthazar Crane, @chittimarco.bsky.social, and Amer Shalaby.
So why are transit projects so expensive in Canada? Here’s what we found: 1/🧵
stateofcitiessummit.ca/files/041224...
December 5, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Some fantastic work on a hidden but extremely controversial problem.
Infrastructure costs ballooning is not normal everywhere, and it genuinely might be more damaging to building a better future in the Anglosphere than any NIMBY. We need change👇👇
Infrastructure costs ballooning is not normal everywhere, and it genuinely might be more damaging to building a better future in the Anglosphere than any NIMBY. We need change👇👇
Reposted by Andrés Valencia 🚅🌇🚲
Gonna have a hard time believing we are taking the housing "crisis" seriously when we keep putting shadows as a higher priority than affordable homes
December 5, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Gonna have a hard time believing we are taking the housing "crisis" seriously when we keep putting shadows as a higher priority than affordable homes
There’s a SHOCKING amount of urbanists/YIMBYs who make the argument of high rise vs midrise housing.
WE. NEED. BOTH.
Toronto is never going to get better housing if we rely solely on skyscrapers. Loving this new report by EnviroDefence 👇👇
environmentaldefence.ca/2024/11/13/n...
WE. NEED. BOTH.
Toronto is never going to get better housing if we rely solely on skyscrapers. Loving this new report by EnviroDefence 👇👇
environmentaldefence.ca/2024/11/13/n...
New Expert Report: Ending Restrictions on Mid-Rise Apartment Buildings Necessary to end Housing Shortage - Environmental Defence
New report spells out the steps all levels of government should take immediately to clear obstacles to deliver 1.5M new homes by 2031.
environmentaldefence.ca
November 17, 2024 at 12:49 AM
There’s a SHOCKING amount of urbanists/YIMBYs who make the argument of high rise vs midrise housing.
WE. NEED. BOTH.
Toronto is never going to get better housing if we rely solely on skyscrapers. Loving this new report by EnviroDefence 👇👇
environmentaldefence.ca/2024/11/13/n...
WE. NEED. BOTH.
Toronto is never going to get better housing if we rely solely on skyscrapers. Loving this new report by EnviroDefence 👇👇
environmentaldefence.ca/2024/11/13/n...
Taking a deep breath over the use of the word ‘light rail’ for the REM in Montréal😤, that being said…
MONTREAL TRIP FALL ‘25 LETS GOOOOO🚊🤩🎉
montreal.citynews.ca/2024/11/14/r...
MONTREAL TRIP FALL ‘25 LETS GOOOOO🚊🤩🎉
montreal.citynews.ca/2024/11/14/r...
REM: Entire light-rail train network in service by 2025
The Caisse de dépôt is now targeting fall 2025 for the start-up of the Deux-Montagnes and Anse-à-l’Orme branches of the Réseau express métropolitain (REM). The net cost of the project is now $8.34 billion, up 4.9 per cent from the last financial update over a year ago. CDPQ Infra’s president and CEO spoke on the […]
montreal.citynews.ca
November 16, 2024 at 4:42 AM
Taking a deep breath over the use of the word ‘light rail’ for the REM in Montréal😤, that being said…
MONTREAL TRIP FALL ‘25 LETS GOOOOO🚊🤩🎉
montreal.citynews.ca/2024/11/14/r...
MONTREAL TRIP FALL ‘25 LETS GOOOOO🚊🤩🎉
montreal.citynews.ca/2024/11/14/r...
This reminds me of a mid-2000s documentary I remember watching that said we could build trains through the middle of earth propelled by gravity alone… egotistical tech bros will do anything other than supporting sound-tried and tested technologies for city building😪
Can we please focus on HSR *within* continents first 😭😭 especially the North American one 💀💀
'Cross continents at 16,700 mph': Elon Musk says New York City to Shanghai in 40 minutes is 'now possible'
www.businesstoday.in/science/stor...
'Cross continents at 16,700 mph': Elon Musk says New York City to Shanghai in 40 minutes is 'now possible'
www.businesstoday.in/science/stor...
'Cross continents at 16,700 mph': Elon Musk says New York City to Shanghai in 40 minutes is 'now possible'
Musk says his dream of rocketing passengers across the world in under an hour on the Starship rocket is “now possible” after Donald Trump’s re-election.
www.businesstoday.in
November 16, 2024 at 4:29 AM
This reminds me of a mid-2000s documentary I remember watching that said we could build trains through the middle of earth propelled by gravity alone… egotistical tech bros will do anything other than supporting sound-tried and tested technologies for city building😪
On a related sidenote, VIA HFR better be announced as true high speed rail, I know it’s not set in stone but it would be a nice pick me up after this disastrous couple weeks.
Hi Bluesky! Let’s kick this thing off with some #nozomi vibes!⚡️
November 16, 2024 at 4:01 AM
On a related sidenote, VIA HFR better be announced as true high speed rail, I know it’s not set in stone but it would be a nice pick me up after this disastrous couple weeks.